Quotes About Inner

For each, God has a different response. With every man He has a secret—the secret of a new name. In every man there is a loneliness, an inner chamber of peculiar life into which God only can enter.

Never seeking true or high things, caring only for appearances, and, therefore, for inventions, he had left his imagination all undeveloped, and when it represented his own inner condition to him, had repressed it until it was nearly destroyed, and what remained of it was set on fire of hell.

When we have no summer without, we must supply it from within. Those must have comfort in themselves who are sent to comfort others.

They could not alter your feelings: for that matter you could not alter them yourself, even if you wanted to. They could lay bare the utmost detail of everything that you had done or said or thought; but the inner heart, whose workings were mysterious even to yourself, remained impregnable.

From now onwards he must not only think right; he must feel right, dream right. And all the while he must keep his hatred locked up inside him like a ball of matter which was part of himself and yet unconnected with the rest of him, a kind of cyst.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.

But the inner heart, whose workings were mysterious even to yourself, remained impregnable.

We are not content with negative obedience, nor even with the most abject submission. When finally you surrender to us, it must be of your own free will. we do not destroy the heretic because he resist us: so long as he resist us we never destroy him. We convert him, we capture his inner mind, we reshape him. We burn all evil and all illusion out of him; we bring him over to our side, not in appearance, but genuinely, heart and soul.

No podían conseguir que cambiaras tus sentimientos: de hecho, ni tú mismo podías cambiarlos por más que quisieras. Podían averiguar hasta el último detalle de lo que habías hecho, dicho o pensado; pero el interior de tu corazón, cuyo funcionamiento era un misterio incluso para ti, seguía siendo inexpugnable.

Her taÅŸ blokunun içinde bir heykel olmas?na benzer ÅŸekilde, her ÅŸiÅŸman?n da içinde zay?f birinin olduÄŸuna hiç dikkat ettiniz mi?

the belly comes before the soul

You are trapped in you, the beam said. Yeah, well, who isn't? she thought.

Labor to keep alive in your breaks that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

There is, in every man, an animal...imprisoned, like a galley slave, and there is a gate, and if we open the gate, the animal will rush out, like the slave finding his way to escape.

The difference between inner experience and philosophy resides principally in this: that in experience, what is stated is nothing, if not a means and even, as much as a means, an obstacle; what counts is no longer the statement of wind, but the wind.

One can always save one's own soul. - Lazare whispered. She uttered the sentence without moving, without even looking up. She gave me the feeling of unshakable conviction.

The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace, for art is a kind of religion.

Morals and medicine warred within his breast, and medicine won the day- but I dare say morals may give him a sleepless night.

His heart cannoned like a billiard ball off some green wall of his innards.

Love is the skillful audacity required to share an inner life

She answered him, there is nothing within you that fights itself and hitherto you have had the instinct to produce antagonism in others which stimulated you to attack.

You can be happy when you feel happy from inside, and when you have worked, you are your happiest.

The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of people, and then they take themselves out of the slums.